Here Are The 5 Healthiest Veggies You Need To Eat
If you are trying to eat better and that includes eating healthy veggies so the folks at the CDC have come up with a list that you should try to add to your diet regiment.
For a lot of folks, eating their veggies is the hardest part of having a balanced diet. If you’re trying to lose weight you probably need to eat more healthy veggies and less processed foods. It is a lot easier to say than do. We all known that eating our veggies is very important to having a healthy well balanced diet, but that doesn’t mean we are getting what we need.
How many times have you gone to the grocery store to stock up on all types of healthy veggies with the intention of making salads and other kinds of veggie forward meals. If you’re like most of us, those same veggies never made it out of the fridge and onto a plate, nope they probably spoiled and went straight to the trash can.
The CDC has a list based on “nutrient density,” or how jam-packed different vegetables are with vitamins and minerals compared to how many calories they contain. The ones with the most nutrients and fewest calories rank highest.
So which one would you guess is at the top? If you said broccoli, you’re wrong. But if you said spinach . . . you’re also wrong.
The most nutrient-dense vegetable is . . . WATERCRESS. If you’re a vegetable rookie, that’s a type of lettuce.
Here are the Top 5 vegetables on the list
1. Watercress. It’s nutrient dense. The one drawback is there’s not much fiber in there. So it shouldn’t be the only vegetable you eat.
2. Chinese cabbage. otherwise known as bok choy it offers many health benefits such as aiding in string bones and lowering blood pressure.
3. Chard. Or Swiss chard, the health benefits include its many antioxidants, vitamins C and E. It may decrease your chances of developing certain chronic diseases.
4. Beet greens.They offer high amounts of vitamin C and helps with your immune system and are terrific for aiding in lowering blood pressure.
5. Spinach. Very versatile when it comes to eating it. You can have it raw or cooked and it is very low in calories. Helps lower blood pressure and boosts brain health.
